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for a number of decrees, many of them admirable in theory, for the
free education of the whole people. In reality these reforms exist only
on paper, all education having broken down under the oppression of a
regime, which in spite of all Bolshevist inducements has alienated the
sympathies of that hitherto most revolutionary body, the Union of
Russian Teachers, (p. 60.)
Shatov* has in his face every indication of criminal degeneracy. A
hopeless drunkard, a sexual pervert, this man is eminently fitted for the
task of torture and oppression in which he revels now. His case is the
best illustration of the undisputed fact that the whole Bolshevist regime
is led mostly by criminals or criminal degenerates, (p. 67.)
The Executive Committee of the Association responsible
for this pamphlet includes the President of Columbia University, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler; Thomas W. Lamont of J. P.
Morgan & Company; James Speyer, and other Americans of
great prominence.
RELIEF BY MISREPRESENTATION
An organization called the American Central Committee
for Russian Relief has been another anti-Soviet Russia propaganda agency of considerable influence among wealthy Americans. With the generous cooperation of the press this body
has contributed to American opinion a considerable supply of
Russian fabrications. The object of the committee is stated
to be relief of Russian refugees from Soviet territory, but it
figures in the newspapers largely through the public utterances of its president, the Princess Cantacuzene, and of one of
its lecturers, Hugh S. Martin, formerly chief of the United
States Military Intelligence in North Russia.
The quality of this propaganda and how it is disseminated
may be gained by the following examples.
Princess Cantacuzene spoke at a small meeting held at
the Church of St. John the Evangelist on Waverley Place on
January 31, 1920. The next morning the Times gave a
whole column to an almost verbatim account of her address.
The importance of the meeting as news, however, was obviously negligible. Princess Cantacuzene said in part, according
to this report:
When the first revolution occurred in Russia, rich and poor alike
ioined in thanking God for the new day. . . . There was no class feeling
and everyone was filled with a desire to develop a republic along the
lines of the United States.
* William Shatov, Chief of the Petrograd Police.
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